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Masterton's soldiers' Last Anzac memorial features in a photographic exhibition featuring World War I memorials, opening in Canterbury Museum on Thursday.

New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart has been photographing WWI memorials that include a single figure, across New Zealand and Australia, for more than three decades.

As with all his work, Aberhart shot the exhibition photographs with an old-fashioned view camera using long exposures and available light.

Canterbury museum's communications manager, in response to a query from the Times-Age, went searching through the exhibition and reported back that Masterton's cenotaph, in Queen Elizabeth Park, was among those featured.

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"He and his brother Joseph established a studio in Auckland, and the statue is modelled on Joseph."

Mr Frances said there was an identical statue at the Devonport War Memorial in Auckland, but "nowhere near as impressive, the Devonport one is at eye level. It doesn't have the gravitas of ours."

The display was created by the Dunedin Public Art Gallery as part of the World War I centenary commemorations.

Museum director Anthony Wright says Aberhart's work is particularly thought-provoking and relevant in the lead-up to Anzac Day.

"These war memorials stand across both our countries as symbolic and moving tributes to those who sacrificed their lives in the wars of the 20th century and are powerful reminders of the massive casualties of war," he said.